Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Trevett and colleagues pointed out , only swift action can save these patients ' lives . |
| 2 | The Glasgow side must beat Neuchatel Xamax 4–0 at Parkhead tomorrow night to qualify for the third round of the UEFA Cup , but Brady believes his side can accomplish that awesome task . |
| 3 | Since they are presumed to be the only judges of how good their work is , no layman or other outsider can make any judgment of what they can do . |
| 4 | Fear can do that to you , as some of the girls present knew to their cost . |
| 5 | The marketing men gradually got in charge and now their corporate thinking and fear can kill any project . |
| 6 | There is very little idiom through which a Piaroa can demarcate another Piaroa as ‘ other ’ than self , and therefore as ‘ outsider ’ . |
| 7 | If the defendant can establish any of the defences mentioned in section 24(1) he has a good defence to any charge under the Trade Descriptions Acts . |
| 8 | Violence can make such an impression on children . |
| 9 | But also because such violence can have some hegemonic justification — derived in Ireland from the threat of the alternative alliance — the beliefs too must be scrutinized for their contribution , religious beliefs as well . |
| 10 | We are told , second , that the blood can do this " by reason of the life " . |
| 11 | The yawning attitude — " Well , I must go and do some work , I suppose " — can bring down students with good innate ability , while a steady and properly constructed programme can allow those with only mediocre skill to maintain an excellent standard , and to have more free and unencumbered time for the social and sporting facets of a full college life . |
| 12 | How odd , she thought , that my mind can reason that out while my body seems to have given up . |
| 13 | ( Fortunately the present study can avoid these problems by placing the ( artificial ) illumination source alongside the sensor ) . |
| 14 | Any campaign to attract students to history should emphasise how its study can open many doors while closing few . |
| 15 | COMPUTER users , both professional and amateur , dread power cuts because even a short interruption can lose all the data in the machine 's memory . |
| 16 | Of course a real class defender can do all the thinking and playing to leave the big man to just climb all over the opposing centre-forward . |
| 17 | The flick of a switch can change all this if you install garden lights . |
| 18 | But she ca n't bless the communion wine and wafers because only a priest can do that and at present women ca n't be ordained as priests . |
| 19 | All that they would be tendering for would be to actually run the facility , and there 's no reason to suppose that a private contractor can do that any more cheaply , if they deliver the same quality of service , as the Local Authority can do , so it would n't actually save money , all it would do would mean that control of the level of service that was being delivered at those facilities was lost from the Council to a private contractor . |
| 20 | As you will see from Chapter 5 , investment can take many different forms and among the list of different options there should be something to suit almost everyone . |
| 21 | Only the bucket-brigade can bring that rich ‘ big hall ’ sound to your instruments or recordings . |
| 22 | And then every so often it 's I 've had office experience and my husband 's this , and husband 's that and my brother-in-law can do this , and my brother-in-law can do that ! |
| 23 | And then every so often it 's I 've had office experience and my husband 's this , and husband 's that and my brother-in-law can do this , and my brother-in-law can do that ! |
| 24 | It is possible to transfer it from one person to another so that the recipient can exercise such rights against third parties as may arise ( see for example Keene , Re [ 1922 ] 2 Ch 475 ) . |
| 25 | The Avrami equation can describe some but not all systems investigated . |
| 26 | Remember , if you have relatively few models in your frontage compared to your depth the advantage of the rank bonus is accentuated because neither you nor your enemy can inflict many casualties . |
| 27 | A federal judge is expected to rule soon on the constitutional issue at hand — whether a state-owned institution can bar half the state 's citizens from applying for admission because of their sex . |
| 28 | Plainly no branch of the information professions or single institution can provide all the solutions to the challenges presented . |
| 29 | A building adapted or retained in its totality can have many lives ; keeping just the facade might prolong its life by no more than twenty years . |
| 30 | In Brinkibon Ltd v Stahag Stahl GmbH [ 1983 ] AC 34 Lord Wilberforce said that " No universal rule can cover all such cases ; they must be resolved by reference to the intentions of the parties , by sound business practice and in some cases by a judgment where the risks should lie " . |